Compassion Quotes
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?
If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.
Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.
Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
